PICASSO: PEACE and FREEDOM

Posted on | March 20, 2013 | No Comments

Dear Friend and supporter,
We are delighted to offer another opportunity for you to attend Professor
Lynda Morris’s illustrated talk about Picasso’s involvement in the
politics of the Twentieth Century. Please see information below on this
ground breaking appraisal of Picasso’s life .

PICASSO: PEACE and FREEDOM
The Battle for Picasso’s Mind 1945 – 1973

Public talk and slide presentation on the political activism one of the
twentieth century’s greatest artists
by
Professor Lynda Morris
Chair of Curation, Norwich University of the Arts

Wednesday 20th March 2013, 7pm
Lecture Theatre 3, University of East Anglia,
Norwich NR4 7TJ
http://www.ueaconferences.com/docs/Campus_Map.pdf
Map Reference: Campus Services, C4

Free Admission    Read more

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Dear friends of the Afghan Peace Volunteers; it is March 21!

Posted on | March 18, 2013 | No Comments

Dear friends of the Afghan Peace Volunteers; it is March 21!
Celebrate Nowruze.

In Afghanistan New Year’s Day, Now-ruz, is also the first day of spring;

Afghans considers Nowruz a symbol of hope, a new and fresh life.

Wild tulips and other plants start to bloom at this time of the year.

This is a traditional celebration called the Red Flower Festival “Maila e Gule Surkh”
Peace Volunteers continue to walk the walk . . .
we are those two children 3“Two young Afghan boys herding cattle in Uruzgan Province of Afghanistan were mistakenly killed by NATO forces yesterday.

They were seven and eight years old.

Our globe, approving of ‘necessary or just war’, thinks, “We expect this to happen occasionally.”


Therefore today, with sorrow and rage, we the Afghan Peace Volunteers took our hearts to the streets.

We went with two cows, remembering that the two children were tending to their cattle on their last day.

We are those two children. We want to be human again.”

Link to the video

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Join the Afghan Peace Volunteers on their Nowruz. Read more
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How to Make Change?

Posted on | March 17, 2013 | No Comments

**** REMINDER 1: Visions for Change discussion meeting
Tuesday 19 March, 7:30 – 9:30 pm, plus socialising afterwards
Topic – How to Make Change?

**** REMINDER 2: If you have not already registered with VfC we encourage you to do so. Then you can easily submit Events and Groups for which you are able to speak. Just click on Register on the top bar on the home page and follow the instructions.

VfC Steering Group
Visions For Change Norwich – a  resource for progressive groups and individuals working for a just and sustainable world
www.visionsforchangenorwich.org.uk
making the whole more than the sum of the parts

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TRADING AWAY PEACE ?

Posted on | March 12, 2013 | No Comments

TRADING AWAY PEACE ?

How Europe helps sustain illegal Israeli settlements, and what we can do about it

Speakers:

Leah Levane of Jews for Justice for Palestinians

and

Marigold Bentley of Quaker Peace & Social Witness

on Thursday 14th March 7 – 9 pm at Quaker Meeting House Upper Goat Lane

Norwich NR2 1EW (off St Giles Street near the City Hall Clock Tower)

Organised by Norfolk Jewish Peace Group and Norwich Quakers

Free admission – All welcome

For further information contact: Jean Davis – 01603 453530

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A talk about curent trends in forced displacement

Posted on | March 12, 2013 | No Comments

Dear Friends,

I would like to tell you about our latest UNA talk on Friday 15 March at 1pm in the Friends Meeting House. Roland Schilling from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) will talk about curent trends in forced displacement which are challenges for the UNHCR – with hundreds of thousands of people around the world becoming internally and externally displaced because of war and chaos. How does the UN Agency cope with this?  Do come along to the talk on Friday 15 March to find out.

Best wishes,

Marguerite  Finn Vice-Chair UNA Norwich & District Branch
Tel: 01603-722880

Below is a short biographical note about Roland

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Defend Our NHS, No to Privatisation. ‘SAVE NHS’ DEMO GOES AHEAD

Posted on | March 6, 2013 | No Comments

NORFOLK COALITION AGAINST THE CUTS

 

PRESS RELEASE
for immediate use
7 March 2013
‘SAVE NHS’ DEMO GOES AHEAD
– DESPITE HEALTH MINISTER LAMB’S PLEDGE
TO ‘REWRITE’ REGULATIONS
  
Despite a pledge by health minister Norman Lamb MP that the Coalition government will ‘rewrite’ NHS competition regulations, a protest against NHS privatisation will go ahead in the minister’s North Norfolk constituency on Saturday (9 March).
A rally will take place at mid-day at the Market Cross in North Walsham.
Local campaigners say that opposition to government NHS privatisation plans should not diminish in response to Mr Lamb’s promise – and pressure should be stepped up. They are urging families to attend with placards and banners.
Bill Adnams of ‘Keep our NHS Public’ said:
 
‘The protest goes ahead, as the Lib-Dems have caved in on NHS privatisation before: when the Government called a pause to NHS reform after public protests, the Lib-Dems helped the legislation through parliament a few months later, with only minor changes. Having now seen Section 75 of the Act’s regulations – which would open most of the NHS to privatisation – we cannot trust that ‘rewriting’ means abandonment of privatisation.
Andy Cairns, of North Norfolk Against the Cuts, a constituent of Mr Lamb, said:
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Event at the Common Room

Posted on | February 19, 2013 | No Comments

St Laurence Church St Benedicts St  11-4pm Saturday 23rd February

see link for details    http://thecommonroom.so/Programme-for-Feb-23rd

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Confronting War Ten Years On

Posted on | February 17, 2013 | No Comments

February 9th 2013, Friends House, London

An international conference

see link here

As predicted around the world, the war on terror has caused catastrophe from Afghanistan and Pakistan through Iraq and the Middle East to Libya, Somalia and beyond.Ten years after the biggest demonstrations in history in February 2003, the warnings of millions have been vindicated.

Confronting War Ten Years On was a conference organised by the Stop the War Coalition that brought together over 800 attendees and a range of leading activists and commentators from around the world to analyse continuing Western aggression and how to confront it.

See the report by Hassan Ghani or watch the videos of the conference.

Category: Update

Visions for Change General meeting

Posted on | January 24, 2013 | No Comments

CHANGE OF VENUE of VfC General meeting 29 Jan.

VfC has had to change the venue for the VfC General meeting of 29 January. It is now at the long table with a bench at the back of the Take 5 bar, 17 Tombland, NR3 1HF. The time is unchanged, 7.30 – 9.30 pm.

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‘Towards a Different Common Sense

Posted on | January 16, 2013 | No Comments

United Nations Association – Norwich & District Branch
Saturday 16th February 2013
The Curve The Forum Millennium Plain Norwich
Cynthia Cockburn will talk on
‘Towards a Different Common Sense:
from battlefield to household – reducing
violence, transforming gender relations’
The talk is at 11am and will last about 30 minutes
followed by questions. Coffee is available from
10.30am
Admission is free. A donation is invited to cover
expenses.
www.unanorwich.org.uk

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